{"id":1399,"date":"2007-05-09T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/09\/laws-of-discourse\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:19:00","slug":"laws-of-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/09\/laws-of-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws of Discourse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more quick observations from last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/wesley_clark_vs_rote_protester.php\">Wesley Clark event<\/a>. Or, rather, one from the event, and one from dinner beforehand. Both strike me as fairly general principles about political discourse:<\/p>\n<p>1) Your current political opinions are interesting in inverse proportion to the number of times you use the word &#8220;fascist&#8221; or variants thereof. Likewise &#8220;communist&#8221; and variants thereof.<\/p>\n<p>2) A colleague observed at dinner that a really remarkable number of problems are, at their base, due to people failing to understand irony or metaphor. Or, in his more colorful phrasing, &#8220;People who can&#8217;t handle the metaphorical use of language are completely fucked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, an interesting question would be whether these two principles are in conflict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more quick observations from last night&#8217;s Wesley Clark event. Or, rather, one from the event, and one from dinner beforehand. Both strike me as fairly general principles about political discourse: 1) Your current political opinions are interesting in inverse proportion to the number of times you use the word &#8220;fascist&#8221; or variants thereof. Likewise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/09\/laws-of-discourse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laws of Discourse?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}